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SUMMARY:Can yeast and a Robot Scientist help us design therapies for disea
 ses like cancers and malaria? - Prof Steve Oliver\, Department of Biochemi
 stry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre
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DTEND:20130308T191500Z
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CONTACT:David de Sancho
DESCRIPTION:We are dependent on the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  for our daily bread\, beer\, and wine. Yeast is also a major organism in 
 modern biotechnology\, as well as an important experimental model with whi
 ch to understand the biology of human cells. In this talk\, I will explain
  that yeast provides important lessons concerning how loss of gene copies 
 may lead to cells becoming cancerous. I will also show how we can engineer
  yeast to mimic human parasites that are difficult or impossible to grow i
 n culture.  The use of these yeast mimics\, in conjunction with a Robot Sc
 ientist\, to screen for novel antiparasite compounds will be demonstrated.
LOCATION:Old Combination Room (OCR)\, Wolfson College
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